Prisons failing to net offenders
Investigators found a large collection of images that he had amassed over the previous six years. He was charged with 35 specimen counts of sexual exploitation of a minor with each charge relating to one image. Of those charges, 15 were dropped and Berger was convicted by a jury of the remaining 20 counts against him.
For each of those counts – equivalent to one image – he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. That is a total of 200 years.